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Civil Rights Movement Timeline
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Brown vs. Board of Education
They decided that they must let blacks go to public schools because it was unconstitutional to keep them separated. This is relevant because it gave black students the right to go to school with the white kids -
Emmett Till murder
Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped and murdered in Money, Mississippi, getting support for racial reform in the South. This is relevant because he got blacks to stand up for his rights because he died for them. -
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil-rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest having to sit in the back of the bus. This was significant because it let African Americans sit wherever they wanted on the bus. -
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C.
The Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington for Freedom took place on May 17, 1957, when a crowd of over thirty thousand people, from more than thirty states, gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the third anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education. -
Temple Bombing
In Atlanta, fifty sticks of dynamite exploded in "The Temple", in the entryway. This is relevant because they were bombing them because they were black. -
New Orleans school integration
New Orleans schools were upset about the integrated schools, so they wanted the government to get involved. This is relevant because they were mad and were going to stop good things from happening -
Sit-in Campaign
The Sit-in Campaign was basically when students sat at the lunch counters until they were noticed and served some food. This is significant because then they were protesting to get some food. -
Freedom Rides
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States. The first Freedom Ride took place on May 4, 1961 when seven blacks and six whites left Washington, D.C., on two public buses bound for the Deep South. This is relevant because they were protesting their rights. -
NAACP convention in Atlanta
There was a NAACP convention in Atlanta and they approved plans to intensify civil rights campaigns in large cities outside the South. -
Mississippi Riot
Mississippi rallied against the federal court because they let one black man go to an all white school. This is relevant because they were upset about a good decision by the federal court which probably means that they were bad people -
March on Washington
This is where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his speech to a quarter of a million Americans. Philip Randolph and some of the leading civil rights organizations convinced John F Kennedy to let them do the march on Washington. This is also when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous speech "I Have a Dream". -
Birmingham Bombing
The bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, was one of the deadliest acts of violence to take place during the Civil Rights movement and started criticism and outrage from around the world. This is relevant because they were bombing because they disagreed which is never the way. -
Freedom Summer
In the summer of 1964, 41 freedom schools opened up in the churches, on the back porches, and under trees. This is relevant because they were trying vote and learn how to protest -
Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Martin Luther King Jr. was shot by a sniper bullet while he was on the balcony of his hotel room.
